I lost my best officer
 

:cry: Hi everyone!

Last night I was on my way to GRID " ET 21 " (close to Freeetown)
it was calm , nice weather so I ordered my gunners to man the deckgun:cool:
And so I ordered my best watch officer Johannes Schönfeld (Oberleutnant .z.s.)
To stay on guard .
Then suddently he said " ship spotted sir " I saw two ships ,
one motorwessel , and a " Medium cargo " 7540 meters a way , so I ordered full ahead , and when I was 5000meters away then the motorwessel opened fire ,
and one of the shells hit the watch tower and killed my best officer:damn:
my boat getting a lot of beating and in the end I managed to sink them both .
It's a sad moment:cry: he's gonna get properly burriel:-? and I'm gonna be very careful next time .
And hopefully my new Officer gonna live up to Johannes Schönfelds memory:yep:



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I lost five men, including the WO, some time ago in my current career. :doh: It was during a needles gunfight with a small merchant near US coast in 1942.
Since that day, I almost never used my deck gun again.

I sympathize with your loss.

May Johannes Schönfeld's memory live on in the annals of maritime history, and may his replacement be half the officer Johannes was.

A toast to the memory of a fallen comerade!:()1:

Ciao StarLion,

I feel your pain! Something like that, only worse, happened to me not long ago. Caught by bombers while leaving port. I was on the bridge when my whole flak team (5 men) bought it. It happened so fast!

It was the biggest emotional shock I've had playing GWX -- I had something like survivor guilt, replaying the event in my mind, wondering how I could have saved these men. As a result I wrote it into a story for this year's Subsim contest.

BTW, you write with an accent that reminds me of Chekov from Star Trek: "nuclear wessels"! I like it! :up:

Amasingly, Ive used my deckgun aginst distroyers and won. Never lost a crewmember. Ive been doing this eversince the war started, and its january 1941.;) 90% realism, gotta have external views to see the beautiful scenery.:p

I lost an officer my last W@W patrol as well. I had 1 torpedo left and two armed merchants in front of me, in beautiful weather. I stopped the first ship with the torpedo, and inexplicably the other untouched ship stopped behind it. I guess it was rescuing the crew?

Either way, I made a mistake of coming up at 600 meters away to deck gun them. after getting quite a bit of damage and losing my officer I submerged, came around from 1500 meters away. By this time the first ship had sunk, but the second was still sitting there. I finished it off from range.

And thats why we dont go in at short range, in good weather your realy shouldnt attempt.:yep:

I lost a pixel sailor as well some time ago,still buggs me to this day:nope:my own stupidity really gets to me when it costs me a crew member:oops:

Hmmm
 

:cry: Hi everyone!
Yeah Johannes Schönfeld was truly an officer.
Faithful to the reich , and faithful to me:yep:
He was respected , and very well liked of my crew.
He always listened to my crews problem , and their social life , and in the fleet.
He was truly and officer & a gentleman.
May he rest in peace .
But life must go on .
Ah "mein gott" I hope we soon win this bloody war.

I lost 4 crew members when i surfaced at night, after shadowing the merchie for hours. Unfortunately i surfaced right under the sunderland bomber. The crew was resting in front quarters, where bomb hit. I manged to dive and stop flooding at 220 metres. Im amazed the hull didnt cave in.:hmm:

BTW: StarLion45- thats highly skilled crew You have there.:lol:

We are gonna lose, Like we always do.:lol: Curse this non changeable campagine.:stare:

I lost the three deck gun men and the WO when I was suddently attached by two Hurricanes......

their first fire burst was sufficient to do it! :huh:

I had a small fwd rest room leakage too! :shifty:

this is GWX........

GWX
The mod that comes up with more than 15 ways to kill you.:lol:
some of them are

Airplanes dropping bombs on you.
Airplanes shooting your crew and killing you.
Distroyers DCing you to death
Distroyers shooting you to death
And much much more.:up:

you forgot mines, nets and rockets fired by airplanes!!:o

I only listed a fiew of the GWX collection.:smug: